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Supreme Court quashes decision to declare mother ‘intentionally homeless’
Samuels v Birmingham City Council [2019] UKSC 28 In unanimously allowing an appeal against a decision to declare the appellant intentionally homeless due to her inability to pay her rent, the Supreme...
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Investigation into abuse at Brook House IRC risks failure to meet...
MA, BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department (The Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2019] EWHC 1523 — judgment not yet on Bailii but available here. The High Court has held...
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M4 Newport relief road scrapped: environment v economics
Listen to Alaisdair Henderson on Episode 85 of Law Pod UK Plans to build a fourteen mile, six lane motorway through the Gwent Levels south of Newport to relieve congestion on the M4 have been scrapped...
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The Round-up: Saudi Arabia, school protests, and state surveillance
Photo: The Huffington Post In the news In a bombshell ruling on Thursday last week, the Court of Appeal (Sir Terence Etherton MR, Irwin, Singh LJJ) held that the UK government’s failure to suspend...
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Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia held to be based on flawed decision-making process
London, UK. 11th July, 2016. Human rights campaigners protest against arms sales to Saudi Arabia outside the Defence and Security Organisation (DSO), the Government department responsible for arms...
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The Round Up: Recent Reports in England and Wales; Human Rights Issues in Asia
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un In the News A number of reports and warnings on working conditions for junior judges, the criminal justice system’s treatment of...
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Orthodox housing association can cater only to strictly orthodox
Z & A v another, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Hackney and Agudas Israel Housing Association Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1099 The Agudas Israel Housing Association (“AIHA”) owns and...
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Seeking a secret inquest? A lesson in how NOT to go about asking for...
This article, by Bridget Dolan QC, is a slightly edited version of a piece which first appeared on the UK Inquest Law Blog. The original post can be found here. Re AB (Application for reporting...
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Law Pod UK Ep 86: Brexit – The Conservative leadership election and a new EU...
Here Professor Barnard examines whether either candidate could sign up to a tariff free no-deal, the so called GATT 24 option, and what the timings for Brexit look like both here and in the EU. Law...
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The Weekly Roundup: Boris Johnson, Hong Kong, and Freedom of Religion on...
Image: Annika Haas In the news In Hong Kong, protests have continued against a proposed law allowing extradition of Hong Kong residents to China. On Monday 1 July, campaigners delivered a letter to...
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Pride, Protest and Litigation – American gifts to LGBT Britain
London has just experienced its largest ever celebration of Pride – arranged for the weekend after the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots so as to allow thousands of British people to fly out to...
View ArticleUK Human Rights Blog seeks Scots, NI law and ECtHR contributors
The UK Human Rights Blog – edited by barristers at 1 Crown Office Row – is seeking recent law graduates to contribute regular articles on human rights cases handed down by the courts in Scotland,...
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The Return of Famines and the Pursuit of Accountability
The ‘F’ word is back in use, famines have returned. In 2017 the UN identified four situations of acute food insecurity that threatened famine or breached that threshold, in north-eastern Nigeria,...
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Liberalising Abortion in NI, Tommy Robinson, and the lawfulness of Child...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law In the News: Credit: The Guardian The House of Commons has passed amendments which are likely to liberalise the law on abortion and...
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Round Up 22.07.19 – A series of interesting cases decided as the government...
Outgoing Secretary of State for Justice David Gauke. Credit: The Guardian. The week ahead will, barring some extreme political drama, give us a new Prime Minister, and with it, the inevitable cabinet...
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The ‘swings and roundabouts’ of outrageous fortune –
Coming to terms with the cost of Access to Justice in the post-legal aid world Don’t follow the money Suzanne West v Stockport NHS FT and Demouilped v Stockport NHS FT [2019] EWCA Civ 1220 In these...
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Child covert intelligence lawful, says the High Court
R (Just for Kids Law) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 1772 (Admin) In rejecting the claim of Just for Kids Law, Mr Justice Supperstone affirmed that the legal framework for...
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Are there principles that trump democracy? The Reith Lectures, 2019: Lord...
Are there principles that trump democracy? This was one of a number of profound philosophical and legal questions addressed by former UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption in his recent and...
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Law Pod UK Summer Listening
To celebrate reaching 200,000 listens, and in the event that any of our listeners wish to keep their grey matter ticking over during the heatwave/whilst sipping poolside pina coladas, we have prepared...
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Rejected consumer goods – are they “waste”?
As invidual consumers we are constantly exhorted to separate the goods and substances we want to get rid of into “rubbish” destined for landfill or items for recycling. Clearly we have to pay...
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